Cultural Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Programhttp://hdl.handle.net/1974/61452016-12-09T17:17:25Z2016-12-09T17:17:25ZUNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF SURVEILLANCE AND SECURITY MEASURES ON CANADIAN MUSLIM MEN: A MIXED METHODS APPROACHAkseer, Tabasumhttp://hdl.handle.net/1974/152182016-11-16T05:47:40Z2016-11-01T00:00:00ZUNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF SURVEILLANCE AND SECURITY MEASURES ON CANADIAN MUSLIM MEN: A MIXED METHODS APPROACH
Akseer, Tabasum
This study explores the ‘chilling effect’ of national security measures, in particular security certificates, on the Canadian Muslim male population. While the constitutionality and use of certificates have been widely debated, few studies have explored the impact of security certificates and other national security measures on the Muslim/Arab population in particular. Using explanatory mixed methods I explore the perceptions of surveillance experienced by this group and note significant quantitative and qualitative differences on Muslim men compared to non-Muslim men. Survey data (50n) illustrate a “chilling effect” among Muslim men in my study, who are significantly less likely to exercise their civil liberties. Through open ended interviews, Muslim male respondents (20n) describe the consequences of the “chill” in their daily lives, on their religious identity, practices, and perceptions of belonging. These consequences, according to participants, lead to feelings of insecurity, vulnerability, disenchantment, and possibly even to radical views. This research offers suggestions in understanding Muslim subjectivity and the role of dialogue to contribute meaningfully to the state’s efforts in understanding and countering terror. Findings and implications from this research offer practical and timely insight to an issue that is confronting Western liberal democracies.
Thesis (Ph.D, Cultural Studies) -- Queen's University, 2016-10-28 12:21:02.382
2016-11-01T00:00:00ZUnsettling Histories: Representation and Indigenous Creative Art Praxis in Official Indian Residential School RedressFullenwieder, Lara Elise Corinnehttp://hdl.handle.net/1974/150382016-11-17T15:57:39Z2016-10-01T00:00:00ZUnsettling Histories: Representation and Indigenous Creative Art Praxis in Official Indian Residential School Redress
Fullenwieder, Lara Elise Corinne
This dissertation offers an investigation of the role of visual strategies, art, and representation in reconciling Indian Residential School history in Canada. This research builds upon theories of biopolitics, settler colonialism, and race to examine the project of redress and reconciliation as nation and identity building strategies engaged in the ongoing structural invasion of settler colonialism. It considers the key policy moments and expressions of the federal government—from RCAP to the IRSSA and subsequent apology—as well as the visual discourse of reconciliation as it works through archival photography, institutional branding, and commissioned works. These articulations are read alongside the creative and critical work of Indigenous artists and knowledge producers working within and outside of hegemonic structures on the topics of Indian Residential School history and redress. In particular the works of Jeff Thomas, Adrian Stimson, Krista Belle Stewart, Christi Belcourt, Luke Marston, Peter Morin, and Carey Newman are discussed in this dissertation. These works must be understood in relationship to the normative discourse of reconciliation as a legitimizing mechanism of settler colonial hegemony. Beyond the binary of cooptation and autonomous resistance, these works demonstrate the complexity of representing Indigeneity: as an ongoing site of settler colonial encounter and simultaneously the forum for the willful refusal of contingency or containment.
Thesis (Ph.D, Cultural Studies) -- Queen's University, 2016-09-29 11:55:33.031
2016-10-01T00:00:00ZUnderstanding Online Abuse: An Analysis of Abuse Against Women Content CreatorsMacDougall, M. Nicolehttp://hdl.handle.net/1974/149612016-11-16T05:47:29Z2016-09-23T00:00:00ZUnderstanding Online Abuse: An Analysis of Abuse Against Women Content Creators
MacDougall, M. Nicole
This research is an examination into the ways online abuse functions in certain online spaces. By analyzing text-based online abuse against women who are content creators, this research maps how aspects of violence against women offline extends online. This research examines three different explorations into how online abuse against women functions. Chapter two considers what online abuse against women looks like on Twitter as a case study. This chapter contends that online abuse can be understood as an unintentional use of Twitter’s design. Chapter three focuses specifically on the textual descriptions of sexual violence women who are journalists receive online. Chapter four analyzes Gamergate, an online movement that specifically looks to organize online abuse towards women. Chapter five concludes by meditating on the need to look at a bigger picture that includes cultural shifts that dismantle the normalization of violence against women both on and offline.
Thesis (Master, Cultural Studies) -- Queen's University, 2016-09-21 11:29:03.975
2016-09-23T00:00:00Z(Re)Imagining Relationality: Brad Isaacs and The Map of the EmpireMagazzeni, Carinahttp://hdl.handle.net/1974/149602016-11-17T15:57:19Z2016-09-23T00:00:00Z(Re)Imagining Relationality: Brad Isaacs and The Map of the Empire
Magazzeni, Carina
The exhibition, The Map of the Empire (30 March – 6 May, 2016), featured photography, video, and installation works by Toronto-based artist, Brad Isaacs (Mohawk | mixed heritage). The majority of the artworks within the exhibition were produced from the Canadian Museum of Nature’s research and collections facility (Gatineau, Québec). The Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN), is the national natural history museum of (what is now called) Canada, with its galleries located in Ottawa, Ontario. The exhibition was the first to open at the Centre for Indigenous Research Creation at Queen’s University under the supervision of Dr. Dylan Robinson. Through the installment of The Map of the Empire, Isaacs effectively claimed space on campus grounds – within the geopolitical space of Katarokwi | Kingston – and pushed back against settler colonial imaginings of natural history. The Map of the Empire explored the capacity of Brad’s artistic practice in challenging the general belief under which natural history museums operate: that the experience of collecting/witnessing/interacting with a deceased and curated more-than-human animal will increase conservation awareness and facilitate human care towards nature. The exhibition also featured original poetry by Cecily Nicholson, author of Triage (2011) and From the Poplars (2014), as a response to Brad’s artwork. I locate the work of The Map of the Empire within the broader context of curatorship as a political practice engaging with conceptual and actualized forms of slow violence, both inside of and beyond the museum space. By unmapping the structures of slow, showcased and archived violence within the natural history museum, we can begin to radically transform and reimagine our connections with more-than-humans and encourage these relations to be reciprocal rather than hyper-curated or preserved.
Thesis (Master, Cultural Studies) -- Queen's University, 2016-09-21 18:55:47.945
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